Climbing Quotes - Page 26

• My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Men, Self, Destruction

  "The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger".

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• Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

  Greg Child

  Hiking, Mountain, Answers

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• It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.

  Norton Juster

  Inspirational, Mistake, Princess

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.189, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Yield, Self

  "Keys to Success".

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• To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.

  Michael Eisner

  Summer, Song, Nice

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• Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.

  John Bachar

  Values

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• My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

  Reinhold Messner

  Doe, Increase, Raised

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• In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.

  Doug Scott

  Writing, Mean, Order

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• I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

  Jim Bridwell

  Mother, Hate, Thinking

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• Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as... a climber... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist.

  Pat Ament

  Fall, Rocks, Piano

  Pat Ament (1997). “How to be a master climber in six easy lessons”

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• For me an adventure is something that I can take an active part in but that I don't have total control over.

  Peter Croft

  Adventure, Active, I Can

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• The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

  Bruce Feiler

  Reflection, Climbing Up, Light

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• Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

  Boris Vian

  Moving, Fall, Simple

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• Phil Ershler is a world class climber and guide. Sue Ershler is a first class businesswoman. But their story is not just about climbing and business. It is about two people in love who switch leads in life’s hard climb. A great read—inside or outside a tent!

  Jim Whittaker

  Class, Two, People

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• If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone

  Jim Whittaker

  Mountain, Gone, Ifs

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Fun, Mountain, Married

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• If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

  Nevil Shute

  Sports, Character, Years

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• The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Children, Light, Hopeful

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.401, Aum Publications

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• Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

  Wally Lamb

  Jobs, Airplane, Jumping

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.

  Walter Bonatti

  Men, Soul, Mountain

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• For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Essence, People

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• The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything.

  Catherine Destivelle

  Three, Months, Facts

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• If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.

  Chris Bonington

  People, Littles, Tiny

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• A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Religion, Mountain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.444, Courier Corporation

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• One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Helping, Hills, Top Of The Hill

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